Wendy Davis donations include $1 million from physician UPDATE

Update:
While not terribly large, a couple of celebrity donations to Davis are getting attention: $1,500 from Barbra Streisand and $1,000 from former tennis champ Martina Navratilova.

Update:
Abbott’s report hasn’t yet been posted. We’ll provide details of his contributors when it is available.

Original post:

AUSTIN – Big donors to Sen. Wendy Davis include an Austin physician who gave $1 million, according to the first report of hers to be posted online.

Davis earlier said she raised $12.2 million in the six-month reporting period that ended Dec. 31, counting donations to two of her accounts and the Texas Victory Committee.

The committee is a joint effort with Battleground Texas, which is dedicated to making Texas competitive for Democrats. The Davis campaign says the committee is focused on her election, with emphasis on a grassroots effort.

The $1 million donation from Carolyn Oliver of Austin, who lists her occupation as physician, is the biggest in the Wendy R. Davis for Governor Inc. report.

Other large single donations included $250,000 from Fort Worth investor Robert Patton, who is one of the owners of the LA Dodgers; and $150,000 from Louise Carvey of Fort Worth, listed as retired.

Davis also got $125,000 from the American Federation of Teachers and $100,000 from Sara Morgan of Houston, community volunteer.

My colleague David Saleh Rauf, who is combing through the report, also tallied up in-kind contributions from big groups and bigtime Democratic contributor Steve Mostyn of Houston (whose donations came in the form of travel). They total about $776, 000, including: